Looping Presentations

[Guest]

Hi guys,

we just recently installed a plasma screen on our department wall, and it
has a computer connected to it.
The thing is, there are 3 different departments who wants to put their
powerpoint presentations on the screen.

And the other thing is,
Since we are connecting it via remote desktop and transfer the file (AFTER
combining all the slides into one presentation), and then put the file .pps,
into startup. and restart. (since in remote desktop, you can not start a
presentation, has the plasma screen is "workstation locked")

the question is,
is there a better solution, and way around on to manage this?

1. Actually starting the presentation without restarting the machine.
2. We all can update the powerpoint presentations, even if they are running
live.
3. loop all 3 different presentations, without having the "black screen -
end of show, click to exit), it will just continue looping all the
presentations?


The setup:
42" NEC Plasma screen, connected to a Mini ITX computer,
its connected to the network, so we could access it from the net.
theres a backup - wireless keyboard/mouse, but we dont want to edit the
slides with people watching us.


.....
I know about the dual monitor, fly edit presentation.
but we can't plug in monitors to the mini itx.

.....
Is there somekind of batch file, that can loop .pps files, and continue
looping even at the end of the last presentation?

Sorry if this is confusing,
but thanks if you help out.

Peter Lawlor

 

[Guest]

About Looping:

You can combine all the presentations to a single presentation and then
click on Slide Show, Set Up Show and set it to Loop Until Esc.

See also: http://www.awesomebackgrounds.com/powerpointtutorials.htm#looping

About Restarting to show the Plasma Display:

I'm not familiar with the mini ITX computer, but most PCs allow you to hit a
keystroke to switch the display. On my notebook PC it's a Fn F8.

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Peter,

If you use the method described in the looping tutorial, then this will
remove the 'black screen' effect that you get with playlists and the like.

Also with the PC being networked you can edit a linked show OK.

When the 'master' show tries to call up a show that is being edited, it will
just skip the show (as the file is marked as 'in use'), when it's not in use
it should be able to call it up next time around.

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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[Guest]

You can combine all the presentations to a single presentation and then

click on Slide Show, Set Up Show and set it to Loop Until Esc.

See also: http://www.awesomebackgrounds.com/powerpointtutorials.htm#looping

I know how to loop them... and combine them, but it's hard to explain.

About Restarting to show the Plasma Display:

I'm not familiar with the mini ITX computer, but most PCs allow you to hit a
keystroke to switch the display. On my notebook PC it's a Fn F8.

I mention that I use remote desktop to connect the computer, and transfer
the presentation.
But when you disconnect from remote desktop, the plasma is still in "locked"
stage.
If I click logoff, then the plasma is logged off.

So there is NO WAY you can start the presentation.

(unless I pyshical go to the plasma, and use the wireless keyboard/mouse,
but thats a stupid and embarrassing way to do it. as we have people coming in
and out all the time.)

so this is why we have to restart the machine to start the presentation, by
auto loggin in and startup...

in other words, we don't want to goto the plasma screen and do it all there.
and we all want to do it remotely.


If I use VNC, then everyone would see what we are doing on the plasma
screen, which will be unexceptable

 

[Chirag]

Are you able to start applications on the remote machine? If not, you can
use PsExec from Sysinternals:
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PsExec.html - it can start
applications on remote machines.

When the updates to the presentations are done, we can now:
1. Quit/Kill PowerPoint application running on remote machine.
2. Upload the new presentations.
3. Start the new presentations.

Does this help?

- Chirag

PowerShow - View multiple PowerPoint slide shows simultaneously
http://officeone.mvps.org/powershow/powershow.html